Comments on: Losing my Licence

By: petescully

petescully — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 17:37:18 +0000

My thing was waking up in Woodside Park of all places, with no more trains south. Woodside Park is not only in the middle of a load of houses – hard to navigate after a beer or two – but it also has two exits. I spent hours (maybe even weeks) lost there one night. I was so pleased to find a Night bus. (Of course, I fell asleep on that and ended up in Trafalgar Square, but that’s another story). After that, I started going out in Camden a lot more – that way I’d ensure I’d always get on the right branch north!

By: Blunt Bloke

Blunt Bloke — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 08:04:23 +0000

Don’t mention that market as it became the bane of my life.

I used to live in Chalk Farm and the over flow of parking because of the market caused us untold grief, hence £82 a year to park out side my own house grrrr

Worse still was the customer flow at Camden on the weekend, people would come down, look at junk and go home empty handed

By: disgruntled

disgruntled — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 07:51:01 +0000

Pete – ah yes, the old indeterminate train destination trick. Actually, the real part of being a northernliner is waking up at High Barnet – or, worse – Mill Hill East having fallen asleep on the train
Blunt Bloke – late 80’s, definitely. Heading to Camden Town to stock up on fashion mistakes… ah, youth.

By: Blunt Bloke

Blunt Bloke — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 03:24:06 +0000

Wow that means if you were travelling on the Northern in the late 80’s early 90’s you might have passed me by when I was working at Camden, small world isn’t it

By: petescully

petescully — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 03:17:49 +0000

i too grew up on the northern line (edgware branch), and part of being a northernliner is getting on the wrong branch (frequently after going to the pub in central london, but sometimes because you did get on the right line but they decided to change it at euston, for no apparent reason). Ah, this makes me feel nostalgic now.

By: disgruntled

disgruntled — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:01:41 +0000

ta – i’ll update the link

By: Blunt Bloke (ex station supervisor)

Blunt Bloke (ex station supervisor) — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:53:16 +0000

BTW Disgruntled, I’ve changed the blog address again as I’ve made London Underground Life private and deleted Diary of a Station Supervisor

By: disgruntled

disgruntled — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:50:10 +0000

yes – it meant an endless walk through Bank station whose underground tunnels seem to run underneath the entire City of London.

By: PaperBoy

PaperBoy — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:28:31 +0000

We all want to know (but everyone else is afraid to ask), how did you recover from the glaring error? Change at Bank and on to the W&C?

By: disgruntled

disgruntled — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 08:33:20 +0000

hehe – thanks all. I’m safely back in the middle of nowhere now, and I won’t be tempted back to the great Wen until the end of August…